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Response To Zakir Naik Part 1: Muhammad And Husain (Repost)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Zakir Naik’s attack on Husain (A.S.) was three-pronged:

  • He dismissed the battle of Karbala as a mere political battle
  • He called Yazeed (L.A.), the murderer of the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) family, Razi Allah Ta’ala Anhu
  • He held Imam Husain (A.S.) and Yazeed (L.A.) equal, nauzobillah

Similarly my response will be three-pronged too.

  • The Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) love for his grandson, his reaction to news about Karbala and the disctinction between good and bad
  • I’ll post a little analysis of the battle of Karbala, who was the perpetrator and who was the sufferer
  • Karbala in the Quraan

And maybe a fourth one:

  • Yazeed’s (L.A.) actions after Karbala

This post will be a combined extract of two of my previous posts. Also, please read this first if you haven’t already.

Muhammad’s Love For Husain

The Prophet (S.A.W.W.) was invited to dinner. As he was walking with his companions, he saw his little grandson, Imam Husain (A.S.) playing in the valley. The Prophet (S.A.W.) went forward to grab him, but he ran away childishly. With a gentle smile on his face, the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) started running after him until he finally caught him. He then put a hand around the Husain’s neck, another hand under his chin, and kissed him. The Prophet (S.A.W.W.) then said:

“Husain is from me and I am from Husain. May Allah love that person who loves Husain.”

Source:

  • Ansab al-Ashraf by Ahmad ibne Jabir ibne Al-Bladhori

Zaid, the son of Harith, narrates:

I wanted to go see the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) regarding a task. I went to his house at night and knocked on the door. The Prophet (S.A.W.W.) opened the door, while he had something hidden under his cloak. I told him about my task and when we were finished, I asked him: “O’ the Messenger of Allah, what do you have under your cloak?”

He opened his cloak and showed Hasan (A.S.) and Husain (A.S.). He said:

“These are my children and the children of my daughter.”

At that moment the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) looked towards the sky and said:

“O Allah! You are aware that I love these two children, so You love them too, and love those who love these two.”

Source:

  • Tarikh Al-Tabari

Salman Farsi has narrated that the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) said about Imam Hasan (A.S.) and Imam Husain (A.S.):

“Whoever loves my children Hasan and Husain, (then) I love him; and whomever I love, Allah loves him; and whoever Allah loves, he will enter a heavenly state filled with blessings. However, he who shows enmity towards the two and oppresses them, I will consider him as my enemy; and whomever I consider an enemy, Allah will be his enemy, and will throw him in the hell fire where he will suffer forever.“

Source:

  • Tabaqat ibne Sa’ad

Other events during the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) life include when Imam Husain (A.S.) climbed on his back while he was in prostration and leading the prayers in Masjid-e-Nabawi (Prophet’s Mosque). The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) lengthened the prostration until Imam Husain (A.S.) got off of his own will!

On another occasion, he was delivering a sermon in the same mosque on his mimber, when Imam Husain (A.S.) entered the mosque and tripped on his way towards the Prophet (S.A.W.W.). The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) got off his mimber and rushed and picked up Husain (A.S.). He then climbed back on the mimber and finished the sermon with tears in his eyes and Husain (A.S.) on his lap.

Another event is that on the occasion of Eid, both Hasan (A.S.) and Husain (A.S.) came to the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.), wearing new clothes but looking sad. The Prophet (S.A.W.W.) inquired about the reason of sadness to which they replied that they did not have a camel to ride like the other children. The Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) then got down on his knees and asked both children to climb on his back and hold his long hair as the reins!

Round and round he went in the courtyard of Masjid-e-Nabawi but still the children looked sad. He then inquired again about the reason of sadness. The children replied that their camel did not make any sounds, to which the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) starting producing sounds like a camel.

Abu Bakar, standing close by, remarked:

“O Hasan and Husain, what a wonderful ride you have!”

To this, the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.) replied:

“Don’t say that. Say what wonderful riders I have!“

The Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) Reaction To News Of Karbala

Whenever the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) sorrow was hard on him, he would take Husain in his lap and bring him along to the mosque, to the gathering of Sahaba while crying. His tears falling, he would display to them the infant Husain with the sand of Karbala in his hand and say:

“My nation (Ummah) will kill him, and this is the dirt of Karbala.”

Or he would take the dirt smell it and cry, with the mention of his murder and death, saying:

“The smell of Karb wa Balaa (sorrow and trial).”

Or would say:

“By The One who owns my soul, it saddens me: Who is this who kills Husain after me?“

Or would say:

“Karbala: the land of Karb (deep sorrow) and Balaa (painful trial).”

Or put Husain on his lap, with his red dirt in his hand, while crying and say:

“I wish I could express my self! Who kills you after me?“

Sources:

  • Musnad Ahmad Ibne Hanbal, Imam Ahmad bine Hanbal
  • Musnad Abu-Ya’la, Abu-Ya’la Al-Mousulli
  • Musannaf Ibn Abi Sheiba
  • Al-Khasaes, al-Nisaai
  • Saheeh Al-Tirmizi
  • Mushkil Al-Athar, Al-Tahawi
  • Al-’Ilal, Al-Darqutni
  • Huliat Al-Abrar, Abu-Naeem
  • Al-Dalael, Al-Bayhaqi
  • and many others via Ayesha, daughter of Abu Bakar

Narration by Ya’la bin ‘Ubaid, Musa al-Jahani, Salih bin Arbad al-Nakhei, Umme Salmah said:

Husain entered on the Prophet (S.A.W.W.), while I was sitting at the door. I saw in the hand of the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) something he turned over while (Husain was) sleeping on his stomach. I said:

“Oh messenger of Allah, I looked and saw you turning something over in your hand when the child was sleeping on your stomach and your tears were pouring.”

He said:

“Jibraeel (Gabriel) came to me with the sand upon which he will be killed. And he informed me that my nation (Ummah) will kill him.”

Source:

  • Al-Musannaf, by Al-Hafidh Abu Bakr Bin Abi Shaibah, vol 12

Narrated Ali bin Mohammad, Uthman bin Muqsim, al-Muqbari, from Ayesha:

While the Messenger of Allah (S.A.W.W.) was lying down, Husain (A.S.) came crawling towards him so I moved him away from the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and I got up to do something. But Husain (A.S.) got close to the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) and he woke up crying. So I said:

“What makes you cry?”

He said:

“Jibraeel showed me the sand on which Husain will be killed. The anger of Allah is great on whomever sheds his blood.“

He opened his hands, in which was a grab of sand. He said:

“Oh, Ayesha, by the One who has my soul is in His hands, it saddens me! Who is this from my nation (Ummah) who kills Husain after I am gone?“

Source:

  • Al-Taba’qat al-Kubra, Ibne Saad (Tabaqat Ibne Saad)

When Ali (A.S.) passed by Karbala in his march to Siffin and lined up with Nainawa, a village on the Euphrates, he stopped and called one of the men:

“Tell Aba-Abdillah (Husain ) what this land is called.”

He said:

“Karbala.”

Then Ali (A.S.) cried until the earth was wet from his tears. He then narrated:

I entered on the messenger of Allah (S.A.W.W.) and he was crying. So I asked what made him cry? He said:

“Gabriel was with me, just now, and informed me: that my son Husain will be killed at the banks of Furaat (River Euphrates) at a place called Karbala. Then Gabriel grabbed a handful of dirt and let me smell it. So I could not help it, my eyes overflowed.”

Sources:

  • Tabaqaat Ibne Saad
  • Masnad Ahmed Ibne Hanbal
  • Al-Musannaf, Ibne Abi Shaibeh, vol 12
  • Al-Moejam Al-Kabeer, Al-Tabarani, vol 1
  • Tareekh Al-Shamm, Ibn Asakir


The Distinction Between The Good And The Wretched

The Prophet (S.A.W.W.) said:

“Through me, you (people) came to awareness, with Ali you found the way and were guided, all good came to you through Hasan, however, your happiness and wretchedness is with Husain. Be aware that Husain is one of the doors of paradise. Whoever shows enmity towards him will be deprived from the scent of paradise.“

Source:

  • Morooj al-Dhahab and Ma’adin al-Jawhar, Ali ibn al-Hussian ibn Ali Masoudi, Matba’at al-Sa’adah


So let me conclude by asking Mr. Zakir Naik, where does your allegiance stand? Husain, or Yazeed?

دے  صبا   جا   کے   رسولِ  عربی   کو  یہ    پیام
اے  حضور  آپ  پہ  دنیا   کے  درود   اور    سلام
سایہء   گنبدِ   خِضریٰ    میں    کہاں    تک    آرام
اٰٹھیئے اٰٹھیئے کہ عیاں حشر کے ساماں  ہیں    تمام

غضبِ  حضرتِ  باری  کی  فراوانی   ہے
سنگِ  بنیادِ   زمیں   کشتیءِ  طوفانی ہے

Just love the “Ghazab-e-Hazrat-e-Bari” phrase. It depicts the time when Allah was enraged of His own Will…


30.12.2008 Ali(A.S.), Enemies of the Ahle Bayt (A.S.), Facts, General Knowledge, History, Husain(A.S), Muhammad(S.A.W.W.), Reflections, Religious 247 Comments

Justice to Muslims, and the Justice of Muslims

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

One day a man was traveling on his camel with his possessions and his slave. He stopped at a mosque and went inside to pray, leaving the slave to take care of the goods.

When he was gone, the slave climbed on the camel’s back. When the master returned, the slave declared himself as the master and the actual master as his slave. A quarrel ensued.

The matter was then taken to Ali Ibne Abu Talib (A.S.), cousin and son-in-law of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W.). He was seated on the ground in a field with some of his friends and followers, and his slave Qambar.

Upon hearing the matter, Ali ordered Qambar to make a wall out of mud. He then told Qambar to make two head-sized holes in it. He gave his sword, Zulfiqar, to Qambar to unsheath and hold high above the wall.

Ali addressed the two men and ordered them to put their heads in the holes. They obliged. Ali then turned to Qambar and ordered:

“Behead the slave!”

Upon hearing this, the real slave quickly withdrew his head, got up and ran away screaming.

Ali turned to the remaining man and declared him the real master.

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In another event, two women were brought to Ali. They both claimed they were the mother of the same child.

Ali ordered the child to be brought to court. He then told to cut the child in two and hand a piece to each woman.

Upon hearing this, one woman denounced her claim and asked to give the child to the other woman.

Upon hearing this, Ali ordered the child to be given to the woman who had spoken, saying that a real mother would never allow her child to get hurt, even if it means staying away from him!

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Examples of Ali’s wisdom and generosity are here, here, here and here.

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This is the Ali about whom Umar remarked:

“اگر علی نہ ہوتا تو عمر ہلاک ہو جاتا“

“If Ali had not been, Umar would have been killed!“

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The 19th of Ramazan marks the day Ali was attacked by Abdur-Rehman Ibne Muljim (L.A.), a Kharjite (one of the Remnants from the battle of Naharwan), sent by Muawiyya (L.A.) Ibne Abu Sufyan (L.A.), the Umayyad (L.A.) daddy of the likes of Zakir Naik (L.A.), Israr Ahmed (L.A.), Javed Ghamdi (L.A.) and Amir Liaquat (L.A.).

Ali was leading the Fajr prayers in the mosque of Kufah when Ibne Muljim (L.A.) attacked him with his sword in the second Sajdah (prostration), bifurcating the top of his head from which blood began spurting. After the attack, Ali declared:

“Fuzto Bi-Rab-bil Ka’aba!“

meaning

“By the God of the Ka’aba, Ali has become successful!“

The sword that Ibne Muljim (L.A.) used was heavily poisoned and as soon as the medics examined the wound, they asked Ali(A.S.) to declare his will. (For more information on Ali’s Martyrdom, read this.)

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I’m talking about the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) whom the Prophet raised in his own house from the age of three months and fed him in such a way that according to Ali:

“He used to put the food in his mouth, soften it up with his tounge and then feed it to me like a bird feeds it’s chick i.e. put it directly in my mouth from his own!“

This is the Ali whom the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) declared as his own brother after the migration to Madinah when he was forming brotherhoods between the Mahajirs and the Ansars.

This is the Ali about whom the Prophet also declared that “Wherever truth goes, Ali will follow and wherever Ali goes, truth will follow!”

Once, Ali was seated with the Prophet (S.A.W.W.). Abu Bakr and Ayesha were also present. Ayesha noted that her father kept his eyes fixed on Ali’s face.

She asked her father, “Why do you keep looking at Ali’s face?”

He replied, “Have you not heard the Prophet say that Allah sends his blessings on Ali’s face and to look at it is the worship of Allah?”

This is the Ali who has the honor and distinction of coming to and leaving this world in the houses of Allah: Born in the Holy Ka’aba itself and martyred in the mosque of Kufah!

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It is a shame to say that none of the channels yet have aired a program on Ali Ibne Abi Talib (A.S.) on the occasion of his martyrdom. Geo TV’s Aamir Liaquat-guided-and-produced anchor did a program in which he informed the viewers that it was the date of the death of the ruler Abdur Rahman Saalis. And who the heck is that?

Our media can go out of their way to investigate and inform about a historical nobody like Abdur Rahman Saalis but fail to even acknowledge the occasion of the attack on perhaps the most popular undisputed personality in the history of Islam, after the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.). Why is every information related to the Ahle Bayt (A.S.) of the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) hidden and suppressed by our media and scholars when it is present in coherence in the books of almost all the sects? What is there to be afraid of? Is this stubbornness, jealousy or plain defiance of the Prophet’s (S.A.W.W.) teachings and sayings?

One thing it is for sure, and that is shameless idiocy!

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“Innal-laha As-alukum Alaihin Ajran Illal Mawaddata Fil Qurba!“

“Say: I do not ask of you (followers) any return for it (teachings) but love for my near relatives.”

(Holy Quraan, 42:23)

The verse is popularly known as the Ayah-e-Mawaddah (Verse of Mawaddat or the Verse of Devotion)

The term “Al-Qurba” in this verse, based on the traditions narrated from the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.W.), embraces only “Ali, Fatimah, Hasan, and Husain and no one else”.

The tradition from Ibne Abbas has it that when the “mawaddat ul-qurba” verse was revealed, the Prophet (S.A.W.W.) was asked: “O messenger, who are your near relatives who should be loved?”

He stated: “Ali, Fatimah, and their sons!”

This tradition has been narrated by Muhib Tabari in “Zakhair al-`Uqba” 25/1; Ibn Hanbal in “Manaqib” 110; Mo’min Shabilenji “Nural-Absar” 101; and Zamakhshari in “Kashshaf” as annotation to the said verse.

In the “Tafsir al-Kabir”, Fakhr Razi has related the said narration from “Kashshaf” and has said that based on this verse, Ali, Fatimah, Hasan, and Husain should be revered and sanctified. He has also cited lines of verse from the Shafii’ Imam, Muhammad bin Idris Shafii’ in this regard. A line of it is as follows:

“If love for the members of the Household of the Holy Prophet is heresy, then the world should stand witness that I am a heretic.“

21.09.2008 Ali(A.S.), Enemies of the Ahle Bayt (A.S.), Facts, Fatimah Zehra(S.A.), General Knowledge, Hasan(A.S.), History, Husain(A.S), Muhammad(S.A.W.W.), Pakistan, Rants, Reflections, Religious, Society 18 Comments